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|lshtext=<b>văco</b>: āvi, ātum, 1 (<br /><b>I</b> perf. vacui, Tert. Pall. 4; id. Pud. 8 fin.; id. adv. Val. 9), v. n. etym. dub., to be [[empty]], [[void]], or [[vacant]]; to be [[void]] of, or [[without]]; not to [[contain]] ([[class]].; cf.: [[careo]], [[egeo]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit., of [[space]], etc.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: quācumque vacat [[spatium]], [[quod]] [[inane]] vocamus, Lucr. 1, 507; so, [[spatium]], id. 2, 1053; 6, 1029: [[inane]], id. 1, 520: [[villa]] ita completa militibus est, ut vix [[triclinium]] ... vacaret, Cic. Att. 13, 52, 1: tota [[domus]] [[superior]] vacat, id. ib. 13, 12, 10: [[aedes]], Plaut. Cas. 3, 1, 7: maximam putant esse laudem, [[quam]] latissime a suis finibus vacare agros, to be [[uninhabited]], [[uncultivated]], Caes. B. G. 4, 3: [[locus]], id. ib. 1, 28; Quint. 8, 6, 18; 9, 4, 118; 10, 3, 33: ostia [[septem]] Pulverulenta [[vacant]], [[septem]] [[sine]] flumine [[valles]], Ov. M. 2, 256: odi cum [[late]] splendida [[cera]] vacat, id. Am. 1, 11, 20: haec fiunt dum vacat [[harena]], Sen. Ep. 7, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With abl. (so [[most]] freq.): [[illa]] [[natura]] [[caelestis]] et [[terra]] vacat et umore, Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65; cf. id. N. D. 2, 24, 64: [[mens]] [[vacans]] corpore, id. ib. 1, 10, 25: hoste vacare domos, Verg. A. 3, 123: ([[domus]]) quae Igne vacet, Ov. M. 2, 764: custode [[vacans]], id. ib. 2, 422: ora vacent epulis, i. e. [[abstain]] from, id. ib. 15, 478: ea [[pars]] oppidi, quae fluminis circuitu vacabat, Auct. B. G. 8, 41. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ab: haec a custodiis classium loca [[maxime]] vacabant, Caes. B. C. 3, 25.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., to be [[vacant]]. [[free]] from, [[without]], [[unoccupied]], etc.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With abl.: ejusmodi (nimiis animi) motibus [[sermo]] debet vacare, Cic. Off. 1, 38, 136: nulla vitae [[pars]] vacare [[officio]] potest, id. ib. 1, 2, 4: omni curatione et administratione rerum (dii), id. N. D. 1, 1, 2: studiis, id. de Or. 3, 11, 43: curā et negotio, id. Leg. 1, 3, 8: [[vitio]], id. ib. 3, 3, 10: culpā, id. Fam. 7, 3, 4: criminibus, Quint. 10, 1, 34: febri, Cels. 2, 14 med.: morbis, Dig. 21, 1, 53: [[amplitudo]] animi pulchrior, si vacet [[populo]], keeps [[free]] from, [[remains]] [[aloof]] from, Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64: [[respublica]] et milite [[illic]] et pecuniā vacet, be [[free]] from the [[necessity]] of furnishing, Liv. 2, 48, 9.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ab and abl.: nullum [[tempus]] [[illi]] [[umquam]] vacabat aut a forensi dictione aut a scribendo, Cic. Brut. 78, 272: (rex) [[quicquid]] a [[bellis]] populi Romani vacabat, cum hominibus nostris consuetudines jungebat, id. Deiot. 9, 27: a [[publico]] [[officio]] et munere, id. Div. 2, 2, 7: ab opere (milites), Caes. B. C. 3, 76: ne [[quando]] a metu ac periculis vacarent, Liv. 7, 1: [[vacant]] ab [[imbecillis]] valetudinaria, Col. 12, 3, 8: a culpā, Sen. Ep. 97, 1: a periculo, id. Q. N. 6, 1, 1: a negotiis, Phaedr. 3 prol.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To be [[free]] from [[labor]], not busied, [[idle]], at [[leisure]]; to [[have]] [[leisure]] or [[time]]: [[quamvis]] [[occupatus]] sis, otii [[tamen]] [[plus]] habes: aut, si ne tu [[quidem]] vacas, noli, etc., Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 1; cf. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13, 1; Quint. 10, 3, 27: [[festus]] in pratis vacat otioso Cum bove [[pagus]], Hor. C. 3, 18, 11: si vacabis, Cic. Att. 12, 38, 2: si [[forte]] vacas, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 95.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After the Aug. per. esp. freq.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Vacare alicui rei, to be [[free]] to [[attend]], [[apply]], or [[devote]] one's [[self]] to [[something]]; to [[have]] [[leisure]] or [[time]] for a [[thing]] (cf. [[studeo]]): philosophiae, Quinte, [[semper]] [[vaco]], Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10: in itinere, [[quasi]] [[solutus]] ceteris [[curis]], huic uni vacaret, Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 15: huic uni negotio vacare, Vell. 2, 114, 1: [[ille]] non vacasse sermoni suo regem causatus discessit, Curt. 6, 7, 21: [[paulum]] [[etiam]] palaestricis, Quint. 1, 11, 15: [[studio]] operis pulcherrimi, id. 12, 1, 4: [[foro]], id. 10, 1, 114: clientium negotiis, Tac. A. 16, 22: non discendo [[tantum]] juri, sed [[etiam]] docendo, Quint. 12, 1, 10: libellis legendis ac rescribendis, Suet. Aug. 45: queruntur de superiorum [[fastidio]], [[quod]] ipsis adire volentibus non vacaverint, [[have]] no [[leisure]] for [[them]], can not [[attend]] to [[them]], Sen. Brev. Vit. 2, 5.—Rarely absol.: dum [[perago]] [[tecum]] pauca sed apta, vaca, Ov. Am. 2, 2, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Vacare ad aliquid: non [[vaco]] ad istas ineptias, Sen. Ep. 49, 9; cf. ([[poet]].): in [[grande]] [[opus]], Ov. P. 3, 3, 36; also, [[with]] inf.: sternere [[acies]], Stat. Th. 8, 185.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>c</b> Vacat (alicui), impers., [[there]] is [[time]], [[room]], or [[leisure]] for a [[thing]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With inf. (so [[most]] freq.): si primā repetens ab origine pergam Et vacet annales nostrorum audire laborum, Verg. A. 1, 373: [[tunc]] et elegiam vacabit in [[manus]] sumere, Quint. 10, 1, 58: non vacabit incohare haec studia, id. 1, 12, 12: [[hactenus]] indulsisse vacat, it is permitted, i. q. [[licet]], Verg. A. 10, 625 Heyne; imitated by Sil. 17, 374.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With dat., I (thou, he, etc.) [[have]] [[leisure]] or [[time]] for a [[thing]]: nobis venari nec vacat nec [[libet]], Plin. Ep. 9, 16, 1: non vacat exiguis rebus adesse Jovi, Ov. Tr. 2, 216: nec nostris praebere vacet [[tibi]] cantibus aures, id. M. 5, 334: obstat [[enim]] diligentiae scribendi [[etiam]] [[fatigatio]] et [[abunde]], si vacet, lucis spatia sufficiunt, Quint. 10, 3, 27: cui esse diserto vacet, id. 11, 1, 50: quo [[magis]] te, cui vacat, [[hortor]], etc., Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 11; 8, 15, 1; Curt. 10, 10, 12; Vell. 1, 15, 1; 2, 124, 1.— Absol.: teneri properentur amores, Dum vacat, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 70: si vacat, Juv. 1, 21. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of possessions, lands, etc., to be [[unoccupied]], [[vacant]], ownerless: cum agri Ligustini ... aliquantum vacaret, senatūs [[consultum]] est [[factum]], ut is [[ager]] [[viritim]] divideretur, Liv. 42, 4, 3: fundi possessionem nancisci, quae ex neglegentiā domini vacat, Dig. 41, 3, 37: si [[nemo]] [[sit]], bona vacabunt, ib. 38, 7, 2 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Esp., of offices, relations, positions, employments, etc., to be [[vacant]], [[without]] [[incumbent]], etc.: si [[Piso]] adesset, nullius philosophiae vacaret [[locus]], Cic. N. D. 1, 7, 16: [[quid]] [[enim]] nostrā victum esse Antonium, si [[victus]] est, ut alii vacaret, [[quod]] [[ille]] obtinuit? [[may]] [[stand]] [[open]], Brut. ap. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 17, 6: [[rogo]] ut Suram praeturā exornare digneris, cuia [[locus]] vacet, Plin. Ep. 10, 12 (7), 1: [[rogo]] dignitati... vel auguratum vel septemviratum, [[quia]] [[vacant]], adicere digneris, id. ib. 10, 13 (8).— Hence, văcans, antis, P. a.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Empty, [[unoccupied]], [[without]] an [[owner]], [[vacant]]: [[locus]], Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 16, 8: [[metaphora]] ... vacantem locum occupare debet, Quint. 8, 6, 18: [[regnum]], Just. 42, 4, 2; 25, 2, 4; 27, 3, 1: [[saltus]], Verg. G. 3, 477: [[balneae]], Tac. H. 3, 11: bona, Dig. 30, 1, 93; 30, 1, 111.— Subst.: văcantia, ĭum, n., [[vacant]] estates, [[property]] [[without]] an [[owner]]: ut, si a privilegiis parentum cessaretur, [[velut]] [[parens]] omnium [[populus]] vacantia teneret, Tac. A. 3, 28.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of women, [[single]], [[unmarried]], [[without]] a [[husband]]: qui vacantem mulierem rapuit vel nuptam, Dig. 48, 6, 5; Quint. Decl. 262 (cf. vacua, Ov. H. 20, 149).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Of persons, at [[leisure]], [[unoccupied]], [[idle]]: nec petiit animum vacantem, Ov. M. 9, 612.— Subst.: văcantĭa, ĭum, n., [[that]] [[which]] is [[superfluous]], [[useless]] ([[post]]-[[class]].): vacantia ex quāque re ac non necessariā auferre et excidere, Gell. 6, 5, 6.—Hence, adv.: vă-[[canter]], [[superfluously]], Gell. 17, 10, 16.
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